Self-guided Adventure rides in NZ most often provide riders with a strip route sheet rather than expensive GPS mapping. Being DIY Kiwis we developed our own cheap and cheerful number 8 system of home made rolling route sheet holder. In Europe even the brackets are complex devices in the form of CNC milled alloy works of engineering, complete with electric motors and handle bar buttons for scrolling. Just as you wouldn’t play beach cricket with a Gun and Moore, when a bit of drift wood is good enough to whack a tennis ball into the sea, nor would any self respecting Kiwi spend 200 Euro on something he could knock up in the shed for pocket money. Instead raid the kitchen cupboard for one of the kid’s plastic lunch boxes – or at a pinch hit the local Payless Plastics for a new lunch box and on the way home pop into Mitre 10 for a length of dowel and a few odds and ends of hardware. The route strips are 70 mm wide. If using the smaller of the boxes that will accommodate this width be prepared to save half the roll on longer rides to wind in at lunchtime. Click the link below for all the instructions.

Trainspotters note that the rider above, the late Tony Kirby, fantastic bloke though he was, has fitted his holder backwards. The rollers should be on the left.